Rumpless Tufted Araucanas
Thank You all for visiting my site. Hopefully you will find it fun and informative. I love the Araucana chicken. It is quirky, silly, and lets face it, somewhat funny looking. It is a very unusual breed of chicken. It is the only breed to combine 3 unique traits. It is completely rumpless ( at least thats what we all breed for ) It has feathers or ” Tufts” sticking out of the sides of its face, and lays a blue egg. They are definately a dual purpose breed of chicken. While they average about 4 to 5 lbs a bird, they have a nicely fleshed breast ( yum!). They lay year round, although they do slow down some in the winter and when they are molting, but everyone needs a break now and then. They lay a nice medium sized blue egg that is simply delicious and quite the conversation starter if you have a basket of them on your counter.
The Araucana chicken comes in 5 recognized colors in the Large Fowl, Black, Black Breasted Red, Golden duckwing, Silver Duckwing, and White. It comes in 5 recognized colors in the Bantam size for the APA ( American Poultry Association)and 6 recognized colors in the Bantam size for the ABA ( American Bantam Association). The colors are as follows: (APA) Black, Black Breasted Red, Golden Duckwing, Silver Duckwing and White. (ABA) Black, Black Breasted Red, Blue, Buff, Silver and White.
Here at Cash Family Farm we raise the Golden Duckwing and the Silver Duckwing with our focus being on the Golden Duckwing. I recommend anyone who is interested in learning more about the Araucana please join the Araucana Club of America.
Feel free to pop around the site and if you have any questions please to let me know. All chickens pictured are mine and the photos are not to be used elsewhere without my permission.